The much-awaited Toyota Supra was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in racing form as the GR Supra Racing Concept, which also meant that a road-going, production version has yet to be finalised. In perhaps one of the less surprising revelations about the forthcoming sports car, vice president of research and development at Toyota, Gerald Killmann told Dutch website AutoRAI that the Supra will “not be a cheap car.”
This is due in part to the Supra’s positioning, which will be markedly above that of the 86. “There will be a clear difference between the (86) and the Supra. The (86) remains the affordable sports car, the Supra is the performance model,” Killmann said. Despite their underlying similarities, the Toyota Supra will have completely different styling as well as a very different set of chassis calibrations, he added.
So far, we know that the Supra will get an ideal 50:50 front-to-rear weight distribution, and will be powered by a turbocharged inline-six engine. However, a manual gearbox is off the cards, and the road car will instead employ a dual-clutch transmission. It will also be ‘very different’ from the Z4 replacement it shares a platform and powertrain with, he said.
In any case, the Supra is mainly developed in Japan, and Toyota’s European R&D centre isn’t quite as involved in the sports car’s development, Killmann noted. “There will be a racing version and if we show the production version, we can tell you more,” the R&D boss quipped. Still a tasty prospect, dear readers?
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still a Beemer Z4. Supra it’s not.
Dont mess with Toyota Killmann.
Meanwhile in bolehland we got overpriced junk named toyota
Dont worry Killmann-san, nothing is cheap once UMW, our distributor for Toyota and Lexus, touches it.
Toyota Supra “won’t be cheap” – R&D chief Killmann.
Wahahaha…what a joke…..
Since when Toyota sell in cheap? Cause in my country UMW sell it as Europe price, like for example C..
And also like V… product in cheap, but sell in expensive…
In the other words, “Toyota Supra is Expensive”!
We all know Toyota won’t be cheap now!
Sure expensive than nissan gtr, but cheaper than toyota ft1.
The BMW Z4 will come with stick shift, if I am not mistaken. That’s because buyers in it’s biggest market- North America- basically demand their sports cars comes with a manual as standard.
But they already discontinued the manual transmission for the M5 F10. Even other country including Munich not introduced the manual F10 M5.
The M2 and its replacement, the M2 Competition comes with stick shift as standard in USA. Assuming the Z4/Supra will be using the N55 or S55 engine, a manual gearbox is not out of the question. But it will most probably available for NA markets only, not anywhere else.
thanks captain obvious
hahahaha , how much the price tag chief Killmann want to give for this Supra , if more than RM 600k better buy Ferrari
“Recond” 1year old GTR was originally sold for more then RM700k when landed in Malaysia.. What do we expect? It’s is not vw golf sport, honda type R nor a new Ferrari that you won’t get for even RM 1 million..
Anybody here think that a Supra is going to be CHEAP, think again. Its a Super car for heaven sake. If U still want a CHEAP Supra, there is always a Matchbox size or Toy/remote car.
original supra was never a super car like ferrari or lambo. it had a cheap interior and only 300 bhp. a better term for it would be “giant killer”.